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<p>[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 965523, member: 15309"]Are you saying that you judge an E-Bay seller as a bad seller simply because they use reserve prices in their auction listings? What do you know about this seller? I know that he is a long time member of both the PCGS & NGC forums.</p><p><br /></p><p>Furthermore, the use of reserve prices in auctions is not the problem. It is E-Bay's application of the reserves that creates the problem. E-Bay tells you straight out the that reserve price has not been met which helps kill the auction bidding. Other auction houses simply state that any reserve price will post at a specific time close to the end of the auction. That way the auction proceeds normally and if the bid price is higher than the reserve price at the time of the reserve posting, you would never even know there was a reserve.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I could care less about reserve prices. I determine how much I am willing to bid on a coin (my max bid) and I use sniper software to have my bid entered in the last few seconds of the auction. I never get to see that my bid did not meet the reserve until it is too late.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 965523, member: 15309"]Are you saying that you judge an E-Bay seller as a bad seller simply because they use reserve prices in their auction listings? What do you know about this seller? I know that he is a long time member of both the PCGS & NGC forums. Furthermore, the use of reserve prices in auctions is not the problem. It is E-Bay's application of the reserves that creates the problem. E-Bay tells you straight out the that reserve price has not been met which helps kill the auction bidding. Other auction houses simply state that any reserve price will post at a specific time close to the end of the auction. That way the auction proceeds normally and if the bid price is higher than the reserve price at the time of the reserve posting, you would never even know there was a reserve. Personally, I could care less about reserve prices. I determine how much I am willing to bid on a coin (my max bid) and I use sniper software to have my bid entered in the last few seconds of the auction. I never get to see that my bid did not meet the reserve until it is too late.[/QUOTE]
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